High intratumoural but not peritumoural inflammatory host response is associated with better prognosis in primary resected oesophageal adenocarcinomas.

Stein, Alexandra Vanessa; Dislich, Bastian; Blank, Annika; Guldener, Lars; Kröll, Dino; Seiler, Christian A.; Langer, Rupert (2017). High intratumoural but not peritumoural inflammatory host response is associated with better prognosis in primary resected oesophageal adenocarcinomas. Pathology, 49(1), pp. 30-37. Elsevier 10.1016/j.pathol.2016.10.005

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The host inflammatory response plays an important role in many solid malignancies. Studies on oesophageal adenocarcinomas (EACs) point towards a beneficial role of pronounced immunoreaction, however, congruent results have yet to be obtained. We analysed 111 primary resected EAC using a tissue microarray containing three cores of the tumour centre and the periphery per case. Overall inflammation was assessed by histomorphology. Tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) were characterised by immunohistochemistry for CD3, CD8 and FoxP3, and evaluated by image analysis (Aperio ImageScope). High levels of inflammation in the tumour centre, but not the periphery were associated with better patient survival (p = 0.001), similar to high counts of intratumoural FoxP3+, CD3+, CD8+ TILs (p = 0.001; p = 0.027; p = 0.038) and a combination of CD3+/CD8+/FoxP3+ TILs, the latter displaying three different prognostic groups (triple high/mixed/triple low; p=0.003). Intratumoural inflammation [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.432; p = 0.030], FoxP3+ TIL counts (HR = 0.411; p = 0.033) and the combination CD3+/CD8+/FoxP3+ TILs (HR = 0.173; p = 0.006) were also independent prognostic parameters. In summary, both high grade total inflammation and high TIL counts in the tumour centre, but not the tumour periphery, show a beneficial prognostic impact on EAC. This may be a target for novel therapeutic options but also serves as prognostic indicator in these tumours.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine > Visceral Surgery
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Clinical Pathology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Autopsy

UniBE Contributor:

Stein, Alexandra Vanessa, Dislich, Bastian, Blank, Annika, Kröll, Dino, Seiler, Christian A., Langer, Rupert

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1465-3931

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Lilian Karin Smith-Wirth

Date Deposited:

01 Feb 2017 13:58

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:01

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.pathol.2016.10.005

PubMed ID:

27916317

Uncontrolled Keywords:

CD3; CD8; FoxP3; Oesophageal adenocarcinoma; inflammation; tumour infiltrating lymphocytes

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.93414

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/93414

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